Mother’s Day Statistics: 61% of American working mothers

Mother’s Day Statistics: 61% of American working mothers Do you know the origin of Mother’s Day? The initiator of Mother’s Day is Anna Jarvis…

Mother’s Day statistics: 61% of working mothers in the United States Do you know the origin of Mother’s Day? The initiator of Mother's Day was Anna Jarvis, who held Mother's Day celebrations in Grafton, West Virginia, and Philadelphia on May 10, 1908. Later, as the idea of ​​Mother's Day spread throughout the United States with annual celebrations, Jarvis asked members of Congress to establish a special day to honor all mothers. She succeeded in 1914, when Congress designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. Here are some statistics about Mother’s Day in the United States. -There were approximately 85.4 million mothers in the United States in 2008. -54% of women aged 15 to 44 were mothers in 2008. - By 2008, 82% of women aged 40 to 44 had given birth, up from 90% in 1976. -There were 4.13 million births in the United States in 2009, of which 7,934 were to mothers aged 45 to 54 years. -The average age of first-time mothers in the United States was 25.1 years in 2008, up from 25 years in 2006 and 2007. July is the month with the highest number of births, with 375,384 births in 2008. The most popular newborn names in 2009 were Jacob for boys and Isabella for girls. There were 5 million stay-at-home mothers in the United States in 2010, down from 5.1 million in 2009 and 5.3 million in 2008, (but the 2010 and 2009 estimates were not statistically different). In 2010, 23% of married couples with children under 15 had a stay-at-home mother, up from 21% in 2000. In 2007, before the recession, 24 percent of married couples with children under 15 had a stay-at-home mother. Stay-at-home mothers in 2007 were: * Younger, with 44% under age 35, compared with the average age of working mothers, who were 38. * There are more Hispanics, accounting for 27%, compared with 16% of working mothers. * There are more foreign-born people, accounting for 34%, and 19% of working mothers. * Most of them live with preschool children, 57%, and 43% of working mothers. * There are more people without a high school diploma, 19%, and working mothers, 8%. For working mothers (including expectant mothers) it was 61%. The proportion of working mothers who recently gave birth increased from 57% in 2006 to 61% in 2008. There were 9.9 million single mothers living with children under 18 in 2010, up from 3.4 million in 1970.